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  • 26 May 2023

Workplace Law Reform Must Limit Cancer of ‘Gig Work’ in Care Economy: Research

The gig work model is growing in the care economy and NDIS, undermining wages, conditions...
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  • 25 May 2023

Real wages falls and interest rates rises signal tough times for households and the economy

You can’t sustain household spending while real wages continue to fall, and households are starting...
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  • 18 May 2023

Wages are growing solidly but real wages continue to plummet

Wages are growing the best they have for 11 years, but real wages are now...
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  • 11 May 2023

Don’t worry about a budget surplus, worry about a slowing economy

Rather than be a budget that will fuel inflation, the budget is actually closer to...
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  • 5 May 2023

Affordability of a Liveable Jobseeker Payment is a Non-Issue

In the lead-up to its 2023-24 budget, the Labor Government finds itself in an awkward...
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  • 3 May 2023

The Reserve Bank’s decision to raise rates shows a total lack of coherency

Wages growth is rising slowly and inflation is falling faster than expected, and yet the...
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  • 27 April 2023

Latest inflation figures show the RBA was right not to raise rates in April

Inflation is falling steadily but hitting low-income households the most. The March quarter consumer price...
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  • 27 April 2023

7% Minimum Wage Rise Would Tackle Inflation, not Feed it: Research

A 7% National Minimum Wage rise for low paid workers would help tackle the rising...
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  • 20 April 2023

The Stage 3 tax cuts are bad economics combined with terrible politics. They should be dumped.

The Stage 3 tax cuts were always bad, but with the removal of the low-middle...
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  • 13 April 2023

Wealth inequality across generations will only fuel voter disenchantment

Millennials are not becoming more conservative as they age – and the rigged housing market...
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  • 6 April 2023

With the impact of rate rises still to come the RBA is wise to pause

Perhaps as much as a third of the rate rises since April have yet to...
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  • 30 March 2023

Stop the fear, give workers a fair pay rise

The whole point of public-sector wage caps is to keep all wages down It took...
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